Bicycle-skirt



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BICYCLE SKIRT.

Patented Mar. 24, 1896.

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BICYCLE SKIRT.

No. 556,881. Patented Mar. 24, 1896.

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CLARISSA. ELLEN DOCKIIAM, OF NEV BRIGHTON, NEV YORK.

BICYCLE-SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,881, dated March 24, 1896. Application filed July 23, 1895. Serial No. 556,863. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Beit known that I, CLARTssA ELLEND ocre HAM, a resident of New Brighton, Richmond county, State of Neur York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovemen ts in Combination Bicycle-Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bicycle-garments, and has for its object to produce a combination-garment which may be adjusted for convenient use when bicycling or which maybe Worn for ordinary street use.

To this end my invention consists in the construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a general view, shown partly dotted, of a garment embodying my invention, the same showing the garment when in the form of a skirt. Fig. 2 is a detached detail view of the Waist-belt and the dotted portions of Fig. l. Fig. 3 represents the garment with the back portion thereof hitched up in front so as to convert the skirt, previously shown, into a pair of trousers, colloquially known as bloomersjl which will -be presently described. Fig. l is a section of the garment With the train of the skirt, so called, hitched up in front in such a fashion as to form the skirt into a divided skirt behind and a plain ordinary skirt in front.

In the drawings, A represents the ordinary skirt, which is of substantially an equal length throughout, provided with a Waist band or belt B. From the front of this band or belt a bifurcated fastening device depends. (Shown as consisting of a section comprising a tab C, which is hung 'from the band by tapes c2, and a tab G, which is hung from the band by tapes c3.) The tab C with its tapes hangs inside the skirt next to the body of the wearer and the tab C hangs outside the skirt, as shown in Fig. l. Attached also to the belt or band B are buckles or other fastening mea-ns ce a', which buckles serve to support forked or bifurcated skirt-litters a2 a3, which pass through apertures of* @5in the band or belt and through the buckles o. and cl. These skirt-litters are secured to the sides of the skirt at a* di at and serve to raise or adjust the sides of the skirt, and extend outside the waistband of the skirt.

Secured to the back of the skirt, preferably on the inside thereof near the bottom, is a button l) or other fastening means. (Shown clearly in Fig. 3.) This button is designed to co-operate with the tabs C or C', as the case may be.

The designed operation and adjustment of my combination-garment are as follows: Ordinarily the garment is in the form of a skirt extending from the waist of a wearer to and about the shoes of the wearer-in other Words, near to the ground. lf it is desired to convert the skirt into a pair of bicycle-bloomers, so called, as shown in Fig. 3, the skirt-litters a2 and a3 are pulled upon so as to raise the side and front of the skirt and hold the lower edge thereof suspended from the skirt-lifters and lifting-tape. The skirt-liiters are then held in their adjusted positions in any suitable manner, as by means of the buckles. The back of the skirt s' is now brought around to the front, as shown in Fig. 3, and the button Y engaged with the tab C', which hangs upon the outside of the skirt. lt will thus be seen that the skirt is now converted into a pair of bicyclebloomers, as shown in Fig. If, however, it is desired to have the front of the skirt hang down, the skirt-litters are only slightly drawn up, and the back of the skirt A is brought to the front and secured by the button b to the tab C on the inside of the skirt, so that the back of the skirt Will present the bifurcated appearance, as shown at A2 in Fig. 4, and the front of the skirt will hang in the ordinary manner.

It will be observed that by my invention I am enabled to utilize any ordinaryskirt with out the necessity of employing a skirt of special design or construction.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a skirt of an auxil iary mea-ns for converting it into a bifurcated garment, consisting of a waistband B secured to the skirt, a bi furcated fastening device secured to and depending from the waistband, one section of the fastening device hanging bloomers or with a plain skirt in front and a divided skirt behind, substantially as dero scribed and for Jshe purpose set forth.

CLARISSA ELLEN DOCKHAM.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE E. MORSE, HARRY M. TURK. 

